Garment-supporting device



E. BOWLER.

GARMENT SUPPQRTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 19.1921.

1 ,74. Patepted July 25, 1922.

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- ELIZABETH nownnza; or wns'rronr, s'oU'rH D'AKOTA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 25, 1922.

Application filed April 19, 1921. Serial No. 462,511.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH Bowman, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Westport, county of Brown, and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporting Devices, of which the following. is a specification, reference being had to Numerous forms of garments, and more particularly ladies undergarments, are provided with straps, frequently in the form of ribbon, intended to pass over the shoulder of the wearer and support the garment therefrom, and as each garment is customarily supplied with its individual supporting straps, when several garments are worn there is frequently more than one strap passing over each shoulder. By reason of the movements of the body .and from other causes, these straps have a tendency to slip outwardly and down off the shoulder, to the inconvemence and annoyance of the wearer, and a principal object of my invention is to provide means for retaining the straps or strap if only one be utilized, in proper position on the shoulder irrespective of the movement of the body of the wearer.

For carrying out the aforesaid object my invention contemplates the provisionof two' spaced side clasps, through each of which one or more of the shoulder straps of the wearers garments may be passed and retained there-- in said clasps being adapted to be positioned a jacent upper edges of the supported garments and the shoulders of the wearer and being connected by a ribbon, cord, elastic A further object of my invention is the provision of a new form of clasp particularly adapted for the purposes described. and also the provision of means for attaching to a garment of the wearer the tape, rib

Y hon, cord or the like which serves to connect the clasps, in such manner that desirable lateral movement of the tape with respect the acthereto is alforded when the wearer assumes difierent positions.

Still further objects of my invention are the provision of means effective to perform thefunctions and carry out the objects to which reference has been made, which are relatively inconspicuous in appearance and which may be readily attached to or detached fromthe garments with which they are in tended to be worn.

My invention further, includes all of the 1 other various objects and novel features of construction hereinafter more definitely described or illustrated-in the accompanying drawing.

In Fig. l of the said drawing I have shown a preferred embodiment of my invention in use in connection with a womans undergarment. In Fig. 2 is shown in enlarged perspective both front and rear views of one of the preferred forms of shoulder clasp employed in the invention and whichis adapted for use adjacent the right shoulder of the wearer, and Fig. 3 correspondingly illus trates in perspective a similar clasp intended to be worn adjacent the left shoulder, while in Fig. 4 I have shown in front elevation a preferred form of means for attaching to one of the wearers garments the tape or other flexible means which is connected to the clasps. Like numerals are used to designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawing, the shoulder clasp shown more particularly in Fig. 2, which may conveniently be first stamped from flat sheet metal and then bent into the completed form shown, comprises. substantially parallel spaced relatively narrow sides 2 and 3 connected at one end by the generally transversely extending curved portion 4:. The opposite end of the side 3 may be curved back upon itself as at 5 and the corresponding end of the side 2 curved rearwardly as at 6 to form a catch arranged to be sprung over the curved end of the side 3 when the sides are pressed together to retain the respective sides of the clas in operatively locked substantially para lel relation as shown in said figure, the necessary resiliency to permit the engagement and disengagement of the catch being provided by the inherent resiliency of the metal.

- The side 3 of the clasp is provided with an integral depending portion 8 conveniently and preferably of substantially the shape shown, said portion being provided with an angularly disposed slot 10 preferably adjacent the edge of the portionwhich is nearest the center line of the body of the wearer when the clasp isworn, as hereinafter described, and in which one end of the tape or elastic band 12 is adapted to be secured. This slot is preferably disposed in angular relation with the upper ed es of the clasp preferably at about an ang e of 451 2, the clasps shown in these two figures being thus right and left handed.

Secured, as by sewing or in any other suitable manner, in each of the slots 10, 10', is an end of a flexible preferably resilient tape or the like 12 extending therefrom to the attaching member 13 which is adapted for removable connection with one of the wearers garments. In the preferred form of the invention said member, best shown F at, may conveniently comprise an elongated plate 15 on the back of which is po itioned a longitudinally extending spring catch substantially similar to the ry safety pin, the plate being providilgacent its upper edge with an exten- 1 '16 in which is formed a longitudinally iding slot 17 with which the tape or r flexible means 12 is connected. If a sin le piece of tape is employed, the same is preferably passed through the slot and the two portions of the tape above the slot secured together by stitching 18 or in any other convenient way so as to provide a loop in the tape which engages over the bar forming the top of the slot, which latter is preferably made of considerably greater length than the width of the tape so that when the parts are assembled, the tape can slide laterally in the slot in conformity with the movements of the body of the wearer. If two tapea however, are employed, then the inner ends of each will ordinarily be looped around the bar and secured by stitching.

With the parts constructed and assembled preferably substantially as described, the device is placed in operative position by first opening the clasps and inserting the shoulder straps of the wearers undergarments or the like therein, the clasp shown in Fig. 2 being designed to receive the straps A ad acent the right shoulder of the wearer and the clas shown i' 3 the; mraps B adjacent the eft shoulder. he'claspsare then closed and the member 13 secured by the pin or other attaching; means thereof to one of the wearers-undergarments, conveniently, fqr example, to the corset, lpreferably about on the center line of the ody, in a. substantially horizontal position-and at. a distance below the clasps suflicient' when the latter are in contact with the upper edges of the wearers garments to place the (preferably elastic or resilient tape 12 un er a slight tension, the'device when in this position serving to hold the several shoal er straps contained within the olasps in'pm er position with respect to the wearers be y and to prevent the shoulder stra above the clasps from slipping off of the s oul'rlers or otherwise out of the position they should properly assume to efiect the desired support.

By reason of the angular disposition of the slots 10, 10 in the clasps and the fact that the latter when in use are maintained in a substantially horizontal position, the respective slots assume a position approximately normal to the general direction of the adjacent portion of the tape which, as shown in Fig. 1, extends from each clasp inwardly and oppositely angularly downwardly, whereby the pull of'the tape is exerted in a direction to insure the proper functioning of the device and the tape at all times conititined to lie flatly and snugly against the While I have herein described with considcrable particularity a preferred form of my invention, 1 do not thereby desire or intend to limit myself specifically thereto or to any precise details of construction and arrangement of the several parts or to the use of the invention with any particular style or form of garment, as suitable changes 110 and modifications may be made in the details of form, construction and arrangement without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to protect by Letters Pat= ent of the United States:

l; A device of the class described, including a pair of side 'clasps having a proxi- 120 mately horizontal loops to receive sl ioulder straps of a garment and provided with de pending portions having slots, inclined relative to said loops, a member provided with means for securing it to the clothing of the 125 wearer and flexible means extending from the said member to the said clasps and se cured in the inclined slots thereof.

2. A device of the class described, including a pair of spaced side clasps having flat 130 surfaces of such relatively narrow strips or sheets are thus left uncovered and unobscured by any portion of the oblique arms not already in position and not required forthe -proper guiding of such relatively narrow only for relatively wide sheets are allowed to remain outside of the adjustable fingers where they will not cover or obscure the printed matter or relatively narrow printed sheets. i

We claim:

1. In a paper-guiding mechanism for typewriting machines, the combination of a carriage frame, a platen rotatively supported by the carriage frame, paper-guiding arms secured to the carriage frame and extending inward and in the direction of the movement of the paper at an oblique angle with respect to the axis of the platen, and paper-guiding fingers extending between the said oblique arms and the platen and adjustable relatively to said arm and platen lengthwise thereof.

2. In a paper-guiding mechanism for typewriting machines, the combination of a carriage frame, a platen rotatively supported by the carriage frame, converging paperguiding arms secured to the carriage frame and extending in the direction of movement of the adjacent peripheral surface of the platen at an oblique angle to the axis of the platen, and paper-guiding fingers mounted upon the carriage frame and extending, across and in movable relation to said ohlique arms and adapted to 'beadjusted to different positions intermediate the outer and inner ends of the oblique arms.

3. In a paper-guiding mechanism for typewriting machines, the combination of a carriage frame, a platen rotatively supported by the carriage frame, converging paperguiding arms secured to the carriage frame and extending in the direction of movement of the adjacent peripheral surface of the platen. at an oblique angle to the axis of the platen, paper-guiding fingers extendmg across and in movable relation to said ohlique arms and adapted to be adjusted to different positions intermediate the outer and inner ends of the oblique arms, and means for supporting the movable guiding fingers in different adjusted positions intermediate the inner and outer ends of said oblique guiding arms.

4. In a paper-guiding mechamsm for typewriting machines, the combination of a carriage frame, a platen rotatlvely mounted in the carriage frame, paper-guiding arms secured to the carriage frame and having their outer ends adjacent to the opposite ends of the rotative platen, said guiding arms extending inward adjacent to the periohery of the platen and in the direction of the movement of, the paper at an oblique angle with respect to the axis of the platen, a bar secured at its opposite ends to the end frame members of the carriage, and paperguiding fingers slidably mounted upon said bar extending across and in movable relation to the oblique guiding arms, and each extending adjacent to the platen and between the outer and inner ends of an 'adjacent oblique guiding arm.

5. In a paper-guiding mechanism for typewriting machines, the combination of a carriage frame, a platen rotatively mounted in the carnage frame, a scale plate mounted adjacent to the parallel portion of the platen, paper-guiding arms fixed to the carriage frame and having their outer ends adjacent to the opposite-ends of the rotative platen, said guiding arms extending adjacent to the periphery of the platen and inward obliquely with'respect to the platen and in the direction of the movement of the paper to be engaged thereby, a bar secured at its opposite ends to the end frame members of the carriage, and paper-guiding fingers, each extending across an adjacent fixed oblique paper-guiding arm and having one end slidably mounted upon said bar, the op posite end of said paper-guiding fingers being in slidable engagement with the scale plate.

6. In a paper-guiding mechanism for typewriting machines, the combination of a carriage frame, a platen rotatively mounted in the carriage frame, paper-guiding arms having their outer ends fixed to the carriage frame adjacent to the opposite ends of the rotative platen, said guiding arms extending inward obliquely with respect to the platen and with respect to the direction of move- 7. In a visible typewriter, the combination (if a platen, guiding arms inclined to the axis of the platen and extending rearwardly from the printing line thereof in the direction of movement of the paper, and a pair of fingers for guiding the margins of the paper and extending between said arms and the platen and adjustable relativel to said arms and platen lengthwise thereof, said fingers being arranged closely adjacent said arms 1B0 and cooperating therewith to guide the sheets of different width as they leave the printing line.

8. In a visible typewriter, the combination with a platen frame and platen, of a yieldingly mounted scale bar engaging the platen in advance of the printing line, guiding arms secured at their outer ends to said platen frame adjacent the printing line of the platen and extending inwardlv and rearwardly therefrom and obliquely with respect to the axis of the platen, a supporting bar mounted on the platen frame in rear of the printing line, a pair of yielding paper fingers for guiding the margins of'the paper 1 mounted on said bar and extending for- Wardlv therefrom beneath said guiding arms with the forward ends of Said fingers resting on said scale bar to yieldingly hold the same in engagement with the platen, said 20 guiding arms being adjustable on said bar to different positions between the ends of said guiding arms.

In testimony, that we claim the foregoing as our invention and aflix our signatures in 25 

